The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain's theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

Mt. Taranaki and its surrounding national park will enjoy all the rights and responsibilities of a person under a recent law ...

After the native forest Te Urewera and Whanganui River, New Zealand has now granted legal rights to a mountain. Mount ...

Mount Taranaki – now known as Taranaki Maunga, its Maori name – is the second highest peak on New Zealand’s North Island.

New Zealand grants legal personhood to Mount Taranaki (Taranaki Maunga), recognizing its Māori status and promoting ...

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New Zealand on Thursday passed a landmark law granting Mount Taranaki the status of a legal person, in a move that recognizes its cultural significance to Māori iwi (people) as a sacred ancestor.

Public access will remain. Other Parts of New Zealand Granted Personhood New Zealand was the first country in the world to recognize natural features as people when a law passed in 2014 granted ...

Public access will remain. New Zealand was the first country in the world to recognize natural features as people when a law passed in 2014 granted personhood to Te Urewera, a vast native forest ...

A settlement under which a New Zealand mountain has been granted ... It also recognises the Māori worldview that natural features, including mountains, are ancestors and living beings.

The mountain is considered an ancestor by the indigenous Maori people. The country's parliament unanimously passed the decision, making it the third natural feature in New Zealand to be granted such ...